“ OFFICE (from Lat. officium, “duty,” “service,” a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, “to do,” and either the stem of opes, “wealth,” “aid,” or opus, “work”) , a duty or service, particularly the special duty cast upon a person by his position ”

“ This first disqualifies (§ 24) from membership all holders of “new offices,” [1] i.e. those created after October 1705; secondly (§ 25) it renders void the election of a member who shall accept any office of profit other than “new offices” but allows the member to stand for re-election. ”